Spiderman, Spiderman, Climbing for the Environment
Simple Justice:
In a couple of hours, a man will climb a building somewhere in the City of New York. Why?
Please join me at 9 am (LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED LATER TODAY.) I will be there and happy to answer questions about my work and we’ll take it from there! I am climbing with my bare hands, as a PEACEFUL way to create support for far greater and urgent action from world leaders on global warming. Greenhouse gas emissions are still climbing. So am I!!!
But The Solution Is Simple:
1 - Stop Cutting Down Trees. Plant More Trees.
2 - Make Everything Energy Efficient.
3 - Only Make Clean Energy.All issues of grave concern. But will climbing tall buildings bring attention to the cause, or bring cuffs to the wrist? Or both?
There’s two ways to look at stunts like this. Some think it’s just awfully cool to watch someone scale the outside of a building (like a spider, perhaps?), while others believe that this is one individual engaging in behavior that’s risky to him and to anyone with the misfortune of standing below him. Not to mention that public resources are used in stunts like this (think of all the cops standing around to keep people away), an allocation of resources that no daredevil is entitled to make.
I’m all for the cause, being the tree-hugger that I am. And I am generally supportive of people acting to raise the consciousness of others about the need to protect the environment. I just have a difficult time connecting up this act with the environment. It’s a guy who like to climb up buildings announcing a purpose to justify the fact that he likes to climb up building.
I hope he doesn’t fall. And I hope that there is some social benefit to this climb. But I don’t really see…